Loretta Ross — Calling in: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel - with Adriane Fugh-Berman

In 1979, Loretta Ross was a single mother who'd had to drop out of Howard University. She was working at Washington, DC's Rape Crisis Center when she got a letter from a man in prison saying he wanted to learn how to not be a rapist anymore. At first, she was furious. As a survivor of sexual violence, she wanted to write back pouring out her rage. But instead, she made a different choice, a choice to reject the response her trauma was pushing her towards, a choice that set her on the path towards developing a philosophy that would come to guide her whole career: rather than calling people out, try to call even your unlikeliest allies in. Hold them accountable--but do so with love.Calling In is at once a handbook, a manifesto, and a memoir--because the power of Loretta Ross's message comes from who she is and what she's lived through. She's a Black woman who's deprogrammed white supremacists, a survivor who's taught convicted rapists the principles of feminism. With stories from her five remarkable decades in activism, she vividly illustrates why calling people in--inviting them into conversation instead of conflict by focusing on your shared values over a desire for punishment--is the more strategic choice if you want to make real change. And she shows you how to do so, whether in the workplace, on a college campus, or in your living room.Courageous, awe-inspiring, and blisteringly authentic, Calling In is a practical new solution from one of our country's most extraordinary change-makers--one anyone can learn to use to transform frustrating and divisive conflicts that stand in the way of real connection with the people in your life.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781982190798?ic_referral=tA0vPSfb1GjbqQBIg9YltU7fwtCRPD8gsj9ffysnvYYwM99JfQghA5t_gWRT9nnWHcN4bUBB_IUNRnlfJAEBQ8mZFrKhYvmt-t2hxijz-wQ5pLXI19qhRe9gjDpgVjVxseRDJALoretta J. Ross is an activist, professor, and public intellectual. In her five decades in the human rights movement, she’s deprogramed white supremacists, taught convicted rapists the principles of feminism, and organized the second-largest march on Washington (surpassed only by the 2017 Women’s March). A cofounder of the National Center for Human Rights Education and the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, her many accolades and honors include a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship and a 2024 induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Today, Ross is an associate professor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is the founder of LoRossta Consulting, with which she  runs “Calling In” training sessions online and for organizations around the country.Ross is in conversation with Adriane Fugh-Berman MD. Fugh-Berman is a  Professor in the Department of  Pharmacology and Physiology and also  the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. Trained as a physician, Dr. Fugh-Berman co-directs the M.S. program in  Health and the Public Interest, which aims to train advocates for a better health care system,  and directs PharmedOut, a research and education project at Georgetown that promotes rational prescribing and exposes unethical pharmaceutical marketing practices. She has a long history with the women's health movement, primarily with the National Women's Health Network.